Five months before the Olympic Games (OG), and after numerous complaints from local authorities, professionals and residents of the areas affected by the security perimeters set up for Paris 2024, the Paris police prefect was all honeyed. After a first presentation, in November 2023, of the strict rules imposed around the competition sites, the authorities wanted to show that they had heard certain criticisms and tried to limit the constraints imposed on employees and residents of Ile-de-France.
“We wanted to ensure a balance between security conditions for the Olympics and allow the lives of Parisians to continue”declared Laurent Nuñez, Friday 1er March, during a press conference in the presence of Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party), mayor of Paris, Mathieu Hanotin (Socialist Party), mayor of Saint-Denis, and Tony Estanguet, president of Paris 2024. Relaxations were thus been made both to the contours of certain exclusion zones and to the conditions of their access.
Access to competition sites and festivities
The sites are always demarcated by three colors defining the prohibitions and limitations on circulation and movement. Nothing changes for the gray areas of competition venues, which are only authorized for athletes, their staff and ticketed spectators. These perimeters, called “SILT”, are controlled by the police forces, who can carry out identity checks and pat-downs. In the red zone, cyclists and pedestrians are authorized to circulate but not motorized vehicles, except, and this is where the changes were made, those with a pass. Finally, the conditions of the blue zones have become more flexible, local residents will be able to circulate but no transit crossing will be possible, unless exempted.
Overall, these perimeters have changed relatively little, because they correspond to “basic safety rules”, according to the prefecture, but certain spaces have gone from red to blue. Thus, in Nanterre, certain streets have been removed from the exclusion zones; same thing for certain roads in the Pleyel district and around the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), to adapt to the demand of companies which have their premises there, in order to allow their employees to Getting There.
The closure dates for the Parisian sites in the center of Paris have been specified: they will be implemented gradually as the infrastructure installation work progresses. At the Champ-de-Mars, Les Invalides and the Trocadéro, this will start from 1er april. Place de la Concorde will see its space partially limited from 1er May and will be completely closed on 1er June. A single lane of traffic will be maintained in the east-west direction on the Quai d’Orsay. The Pont d’Iéna and the Pont Royal will be closed from 1er July.
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